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The Grand Crimean Central Railway (Paperback)
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The Grand Crimean Central Railway (Paperback)
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The Crimean War, fought by the alliance of Great Britain, France,
and the tiny Italian Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia alongside Turkey
against Tsarist Russia, was the first 'modern' war, not only for
its vast scale (France mobilised a million men) but also the
technologies involved, from iron-clad battleships to rifled
artillery, the electric telegraph and steam. Best known for the
blunder of the Charge of the Light Brigade, the fearful conditions
in the trenches at the front, and the quiet heroism of Florence
Nightingale, the Crimean War saw the railway go to war for the
first time. The Grand Crimean Central Railway was the brainchild of
two Victorian railway magnates, Samuel Morton Peto and Thomas
Brassey; in order to alleviate the suffering at the front, they
volunteered to build at cost a steam railway linking the Allied
camps at Sevastopol to their supply base at Balaclava. In the face
of much official opposition, the railway was built and operational
in a matter of months, supplying hundreds of tons of food, clothing
and materiel to the starving and freezing men in their trenches.
Largely worked by civilian auxiliaries, the Grand Crimean Central
Railway saw the railway transformed into a war-winning weapon,
saving countless thousands of lives as it did so.
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